[clamav-users] New Main & Daily CVD's are incoming

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

> On Jul 13, 2021, at 18:08, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:05:53 +0000
> "Joel Esler \(jesler\) via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
>> Tomorrow, Wednesday July 14th, we are planning on publishing a brand new main.cvd and daily.cvd, as we do periodically to move more of the long term signatures into the main.cvd and make the daily.cvd smaller again.  
>> 
>> This will have an impact on your downloads of these files (as every ClamAV instance will have to re-download both files), so you may see a spike in your bandwidth usage.
>> 
>> We will monitor the situation on the mirror side and make any adjustments necessary, but we anticipate no issues.
>> 
>> https://blog.clamav.net/2021/07/new-main-daily-cvds-are-incoming.html <https://blog.clamav.net/2021/07/new-main-daily-cvds-are-incoming.html>
> 
> I wondered when (and if) you would be able to distribute a new main.cvd, given your concerns about Cloudflare bandwidth usage. I assume this means that there is (almost) no one still downloading ClamAV updates every second or so.

Oh there are, but at this point most of them have been blocked outright, and then they file a ticket and apologize for doing it, or they are rate limited. 

We are also working with Cloudflare to enact some more specific rate limits (we’ve been working with them on the development of the feature) that will alleviate a lot of the problems we are having with any newer versions, and then slowly we are EOL’ing older versions of ClamAV.  The more people upgrade to 103.2 or 103.3 (newest) the better the ecosystem will be.  Slowly over the next year or so, the ecosystem will normalize and our bandwidth usage will be extremely efficient.  

> I also presume that my IP address won't set off any alarms tomorrow by downloading 3 complete copies of main.cvd and daily.cvd (since I gave up trying to run my own mirror many months ago).
> 
I will have to make the rate limits bigger tomorrow for the main and daily


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